Boxing is a combat sport.
Boxing is a sport where two people face each other with fist blows with their hands covered by gloves and according to certain rules. The winner is the one who manages to knock down his rival without him being able to get up before a count of ten or who, at the end of the fight, has more points than the opponent according to the opinion of a jury.
Generally the concept of boxing, boxing or pugilism refers to English boxing (also called Irish boxing ). There are other versions of this sport with different regulations, such as Thai boxing (which allows punches with elbows, knees and legs) and Japanese boxing (allows kicks but not elbows or knees).
boxing fights
Boxing fights take place in a quadrilateral known as a ring . These fights are divided into sequences called rounds or assaults . The number of rounds per event varies according to the regulations .
It should be noted that there are various entities that organize boxing matches and award titles . They all agree on dividing the boxers into categories according to weight so that the confrontations are balanced.
A risky sport
Boxing, beyond certain changes and updates , has been governed since 1867 by the Queensberry rules , the regulations that incorporated the use of gloves, set the duration of the rounds at three minutes and established the ten-second count.
Due to the number of blows a boxer receives in each fight, boxing is considered a risky sport . Numerous fighters have died as a result of injuries suffered while practicing this activity.
Muhammad Ali is one of the historical symbols of boxing.
Muhammad Ali, boxing icon
Also known as Mohamed Ali , Muhammad Ali is considered by many to be the greatest boxer in history . He was born in Lousville , Kentucky ( United States ), in 1942 and died in the state of Arizona in 2016 . At the beginning of his career his name was Cassius Clay and in a short time he managed to stand out at a level that was unprecedented.
For his contemporaries, as well as for the generations that followed him, he was an important figure who exerted great influence in various fields thanks to his humanitarian work and his concern for social problems and politics. Two of his primary interests were Islam and the rights of African Americans.
Already in his first years of entering boxing, when he still considered himself a beginner athlete, he managed to come in first place at the Rome Olympic Games (in 1960 ). After this gold medal came other achievements, such as the title of undisputed champion, which was awarded to him during his professional stage in 1964 , where he competed in the heavyweight category. Ten years later he obtained this honor again, and once again in 1978 , and thus became the first in history to have won a world title three times within his category.
Ali's popularity
Although Muhammad Ali was a boxer who knew the features of the sport in depth and knew how to masterfully read his opponents, one of his most outstanding characteristics was the authenticity of his style , which could not be framed within traditional rules.
For almost his entire career, his manager was Angelo Dundee , and his opponents included many of the greatest boxers of all time, such as George Foreman, Sonny Liston, Ken Norton and Joe Frazier . Many of his fights reached very high levels of popularity, and filled sports magazines (especially The Ring , which began publishing in 1922 ) with numerous articles, both predictive and critical.